18 SEPTEMBER 1959, page 8

In Other Letters, 'runnymede' Mounts A Per- Sonal...

on each member of the Whig Establishment separately; the one to Palmerston begins—'My Lord, the Minister who maintains himself in power in spite of the con- tempt of a whole......

A Spectator's Notebook

auction : A Prime Minister in an easy chair, reading a French novel. What do you think of that lot? Three Secretaries of State, one odious, another contemptible, the third both.......

Must Apologise To Sir Ian Jacob, Sir Robert Fraser. The

party Whips, and the party leaders for asserting, wrongly, that the two corporations were not represented at the meeting held last week to settle outstanding problems of......

I Notice That The Conservative Party Posters— 'life's...

The Conservatives—Don't Let Labour Ruin It'—have now disappeared from the hoardings; but they have been succeeded by posters put out by the National Union of Manu- facturers,......

Election Commentary

Advance from Blackpool 'WHERE the devil's Rab'?' 'Probably slapping Cross- bencher on the back.' 'Don't get you.' 'Didn't you sec his piece last Sunday?' 'Yes.' 'Oh, yes, I saw......

The Corporations Can Argue, With Some Justice, That They...

prevailed on the parties to accept great changes : that this General Election is going to be fought with different and much-improved TV coverage than any before; and that the......

Who Was This Scurrilous Scribbler Who So Per- Sonally, And

with such appalling taste, scourged the heroes of the history books? At the time he wrote these outrageous columns, he was a journal- ist and novelist in his early thirties, who......